Secret Server Feature: Two-factor authentication

Use two-factor with Secret Server for robust authentication

Two-factor is an authentication method based on something you know (a password) and something you have (a one-time token).

What’s the challenge?

When an administrator’s password is compromised, you need a way to ensure that access to your Secret Server password software is protected.

Why it’s important

Secret Server holds some of your organization’s most sensitive data and access to it must be secure. Two-factor authentication is a security best practice that is easy to enable in Secret Server, and supports many common providers.

How this feature solves it

Two-factor authentication ensures that even if a password is stolen, a malicious user can’t sign into Secret Server. It helps confirm that a user is who they say they are and not a malicious user impersonating them.

Is your organization forced to meet regulatory compliance guidelines? By using two-factor as part of the Secret Server login process you can solidify your information security practices required by many compliance mandates.

Additional Information

You can use many different two-factor authentication solutions including RSA, Smartphone apps such as Google authenticator, and Duo Security.

Secret Server also supports any two-factor provider that provides a RADIUS interface. This is an industry standard implementation and most commercial two-factor vendors support RADIUS.

Duo Security supports push notifications directly to the user’s phone, as well as hardware based tokens such as YubiKey. If the user’s app or token isn’t available they can also receive a phone call or text message for out of band authentication.

Google authenticator or any soft token app that supports TOTP (Microsoft Authenticator, Duo, Amazon MFA) can also be used. Soft tokens are a free and quick way to add additional security to your login process if no commercial two factor solution is available.

Secret Server also supports any two-factor provider that provides a RADIUS interface. This is an industry standard implementation and most commercial two-factor vendors support RADIUS.

Benefits of using Two-factor authentication:

You can use your existing authentication infrastructure.

You can authenticate users before granting them access to Secret Server.